The Power of Platforms

The announcement of the Google Wave platform and all the early descriptions of the role it could play in building Web based applications has me thinking about the power of platforms in general. I think an important concept for us all to think about is the trend we are seeing [...]

Tech News Review

While we normally try to offer a position or provide you with a technology path, I wanted to bring some technology news to your attention with a quick post.  I feel that these items are important in and of themselves, so I wanted to give you this quick rundown. Security [...]

2016-10-30T06:08:52-05:00March 24th, 2009|Categories: Technology|Tags: , , , , |

Safety In (File) Numbers

Cloud-based File Storage Last weekend on Twitter, I saw a few tweets where a friend had lost a file, and try as she might, she could not find it on her machine, it was simply gone.  There were lots of replies to her about the benefits of Apple's Time Capsule [...]

2016-10-30T06:08:54-05:00November 19th, 2008|Categories: Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The Platform of Clouds

We hear about the 'Cloud' at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways.  The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and more; but their ideas are closer than they would like [...]

2016-10-30T06:08:54-05:00November 11th, 2008|Categories: Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |